HETEROPTERUS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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,,The under surface as above, except the whole apex of the wing being broadly yellow. Hindwing quite yellow, 
at the costal margin speckled black.“ Madagascar. 
A. rhadama Bsd. (78 b). Wings above blackish-brown; hindwing spotless; forewing with small yellowish rhudama. 
discal dots in 1 b to 3, 6 to 8, and generally also with such a dot in the discal cell, beneath at the costal margin 
and at the apex brown or yellowish. Madagascar. 
A. faemieri Bsd. (78 c). The discal spot 3 of the forewing is small, nearer to the margin than the spot bernkri. 
in 2 and separated from it. Hindwing beneath dark yellow, dusted with blackish, and with some rounded 
or square, indistinct dull yellow spots. Madagascar. 
A. cariate Hew. (78 b) is very similar to bernieri, but the forewing with a discal spot also in 1 b, cariate. 
and the discal spots 2 and 3 touching each other. Hindwing beneath more brownish-yellow, but otherwise 
spotted as in bernieri. Madagascar. 
A. mirza Mob. only differs above from the two preceding species by the discal spots 2 and 3 of the mirzu. 
forewing being more removed towards the margin and being situate almost directly behind each other. Hindwing 
beneath greyish-yellow without spots. Madagascar. 
2. Genus: Meteropterus Bum. 
The following Ethiopian species are better ranged in this genus than in any other having hitherto 
been established. Mabille places three of them (lepeletieri, tsita, and inornatus) to Leptalina ; but as the posterior 
tibiae of Leptalina have but two spines, whilst those of the said species exhibit 4, they cannot be placed to 
this genus. They are at once discernible from Cyclopides by the separately running vein 11 of the forewing. 
Amongst themselves the species differ somewhat by the length of the antennae and the formation of the 
antennal club. 
Review of the Species. 
I. Discal cell of forewing on both sides without any markings. Both wings above blackish-brown without 
markings. 
A. Fringes of the wings not spotted dark at the ends of the veins. 
a. Hindwing beneath from the base to the margin with two white longitudinal lines, one in 1 c, the 
other in the discal cell and above vein 5. Eorewing also beneath without markings. 
*. The two longitudinal lines of the hindwing beneath broad and very distinctly prominent. 
H. lepeletieri. 
**. The two longitudinal lines of the hindwing beneath fine and rather indistinct; the veins between 
them often whitish. H. tsita. 
p. Hindwing beneath without white longitudinal lines. 
*. Wings beneath without spots or only with one grey discal clot and some small, whitish dicsal 
dots. H. inornatus. 
**. Forewing beneath without spots. Hindwing beneath with a darker nebulous spot at the cell-end 
and a discal nebulous band. H. niangarensis. 
B. Fringes of the wings spotted black at the ends of the veins. Forewing beneath with black marginal 
spots between the whitish ends of the veins, and a grey discal line being angularly broken at vein 5. 
Hindwing beneath blackish-grey with four very fine bent grey transverse lines. H. abjectus. 
II. Discal cell of forewing at the apex witli 1 or 2 white dots. 
a. Fringes of the wings light with dark spots at the ends of the veins. 
*. Forewing above uni-coloured black without markings or only with 2 or 3 minute white subapical 
dots and some discal dots. Hindwing above uni-coloured black without spots, beneath with 
a light yellow ground-colour and black markings. H. anomaeus. 
**. Forewing above with a complete, in area 5 broken row of white discal dots (in 1 b to 8). 
1. Hindwing above without spots, uni-coloured black. Forewing beneath at the costal margin 
and in the discal cell, and hindwing beneath everywhere with a yellowish ground-colour and black 
veins. Hindwing beneath with large white, black-ringed discal spots in the areas lc to 7; the 
spot in 1 c is double. H. stellatus. 
2. Hindwing above with some small white discal spots near the costal margin. Both wings beneath 
with a grey ground-colour. Hindwing with light veins, small white discal spots and similar 
crescentiform marginal spots. H. punctulatus. 
